Details

• Mexico
• BaWiSo-23
• Undergraduate
• SoSe 2026
• Time spent at the partner university: 5 months

1. Preparation

For preparation I just read through the exchange reports of the students who went to Mexico before me and also informed myself in general about the country, city, living and housing conditions, visa, vaccinations etc. I traveled to Mexico one and a half week before university start to have a bit of time to explore the country and city I am going to live for the next few months. I took the plane from Vienna to Paris, Paris to Mexico-City. In Mexiko it is not allowed to use Uber in the airport, so I took a normal taxi, which was quite expensive for mexican prices so next time I would just leave the airport area by foot and order Uber there.

2. Accommodation

The accommodation search itself was quite easy. The university sent us a catalouge of all the student housings available in the area near university. I recommend staying near university, since locations like RomaNorte and Condesa are really beautiful but having to Uber everyday to university sucks. Public transport is good but most of the time really crowded. I was living in a student house, Calle Tlaxcala 59, which was only 10 minutes by foot away from university campus. I was living there with one other international student and six mexican students. All were very nice and the room and house was overall clean. The location was very safe and there was an Oxxo (convenience store) 3 minutes away. Although I liked staying there I would not recommend if you want to have peace. The doors and windows are very thin and the mexican students were gaming, shouting and partying in the kitchen far into the night even during the week.

3. Academic life at host university

The campus is great! Very green, clean and really beautiful overall. The international office is also there for every issue you have and you can always knock on their door and ask for help. There is also a (free) doctors office on campus. I took relatively easy courses so I did not have any problems with keeping up with the course content, but I do not like that at ITAM every course is two times a week and you have to attend. The courses I took were not really hard but you had to do a lot for them; quizzes, presentations, etc. I also took one spanish course (level 2 out of 3) to strenghten my spanish skills, but with this course I only learned some grammar-rules but not really how to be good in spanish so I would not recommend it. I recommend inscribing in a course in the beginning and just drop it, if you do not like it anymore. Course Recommendations (all in english): Desarrollo de habilidades gerenciales, Negocios sustentables y responsabilidad social, Administracion internacional

5. Every day life in the host country

Living in mexico is great! The food (lots of tacos), friendly people and the great and diverse nature. Public transport in big cities is good but really crowded, in smaller cities and on the countryside I used a lot of Uber or Diddi. I felt really safe during my whole stay in mexico, the only time I really felt unsafe, was when I went hiking and a group of stray dogs surrounded and barked at me and my friend. Be prepared for a lot of stray dogs outside big cities! There are a lot of activities to do in mexico, from throwing axes on a saturday evening, to hiking, chilling on the beach, doing a sunday run in the big parks in mexico-city or going to one of the museums or michelin-star street tacos, you can literally do anything here. At university there are also sport clubs, such as football, volleyball, tennis, dancing etc.

6. Testimonial

I loved my stay in mexico! I got to travel a lot during the semester and made new friends from around the world. I got to experience the latin american culture, ate my way through the mexican cuisine and enjoyed warm caribbean sunsets on the beach. I also really enjoyed studying on one of the best campuses in mexico.